Thirdly, people in the 21st century have advanced social mobility and personal freedom. Prevailing legal frameworks forbid any sort of discrimination. People are free to choose their profession, partner and lifestyle without fear of judgment from society.

第三，21世纪的人们社会流动性和人身自由度更高。现行法禁止任何形式的歧视。人们可以自由选择自己的职业、伴侣和生活方式，而不用担心来自社会的评判。

(She has been provided with armour moulded to her breasts, armies in the third century being famous equal-opportunity employers, of course. ) Or is it when he battles a computer-generated monkey—part-gibbon, part-Gollum?

（她配备了贴胸部的盔甲，当然，第三世纪的军队是出了名的平等机会雇主。）或者是当他与一只电脑生成的猴子——一半是长臂猿，一半是咕——时？

As the third decade of the third century BC dawned, the Romans finally succeeded in defeating their Samnite rivals.

到了公元前3世纪的第三个十年，罗马人终于成功击败了他们的萨姆尼特对手。

The plague struck again for the third time that century.

【strike】瘟疫又暴发了，那是那个世纪的第三次了。

And monasticism, the third medieval institution, received its deathblow in the wholesale suppression of the monasteries and the removal of abbots from the House of Lords.

而修道院主义，这个中世纪的第三种机构，在大规模镇压修道院和将修道院院长赶出上议院时受到了致命打击。

So this is going on in the, you know, third or fourth quarter of the 19th century.

所以这件事发生在19世纪的第三或第四季度。